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Pete Carroll: "That Was A Really Solid Win For Us" · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: Really solid win for us to get this done coming
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  Speaker 1: back home for a second that we haven't been in
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  Speaker 1: here for a while, and so we're trying to put
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  Speaker 1: together some consistency playing here, and where the consistency showed
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  Speaker 1: up with it was with their defense. They did a
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  Speaker 1: fantastic job again today to go back out at halftime
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  Speaker 1: after halftime and shut them down and not give anything
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  Speaker 1: up and just play really good football to answer the bell.
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  Speaker 1: We had three, you know, horrible turnovers in this game.
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  Speaker 1: You just it's so hard to win it, and a
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  Speaker 1: minus three in the game, and so the game it
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  Speaker 1: stays close because of that. But the defensive guys did
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  Speaker 1: a great job of going out in their answering the bell.
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  Speaker 1: I think they got three points out of the three turnovers,
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  Speaker 1: So that's huge. It's a big it's a big source
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  Speaker 1: of pride for us that we do that well, and
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  Speaker 1: we have been doing it well during the season already,
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  Speaker 1: and we just did it again. So I really fired
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  Speaker 1: up about that. Pass rush was alive again today. A
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  Speaker 1: lot of opportunities for us to go get it and
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  Speaker 1: I was really fired up it we finished it. That's
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  Speaker 1: the way we like to finish games here. A looming
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  Speaker 1: and uh, chasing the quarterback around, getting sacks and like that.
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  Speaker 1: You know, had a really nice, solid game, solid game
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  Speaker 1: and numbers were good. Brought the pups to life in
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  Speaker 1: this game. It's great to see Jackson get his first
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  Speaker 1: touchdown and he had a number of contributions, and and
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  Speaker 1: and Bobo freaking Circus grabbed to hold that ball and
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  Speaker 1: get it by an eyelash down there and make that touchdown.
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  Speaker 1: It was a great play by both Gino and and Bobo.
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  Speaker 1: But it's great for us here we're coming around to
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  Speaker 1: the halfway point and to have those pups playing like that,
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  Speaker 1: they can play like starters, and they did, and so
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  Speaker 1: that that's a great accomplishment through the process. It's what
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  Speaker 1: it's what we shoot for. And so really you know,
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  Speaker 1: fired up to be able to say that those guys
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  Speaker 1: can go out there and play and it doesn't matter
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  Speaker 1: what's going on or who's in the game or whatever,
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  Speaker 1: they'll play like starters. Kenny had a really good day.
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  Speaker 1: There was hard, it's a hard, tough day. Got over
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  Speaker 1: one hundred yards, I think that's what I heard. But
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  Speaker 1: he battled all day long and did a really nice job.
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  Speaker 1: So I think that the guys up front. Somebody gave
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  Speaker 1: me the number that this is the fifth variation of
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  Speaker 1: our of our offensive line. That right, yeah, okay, well
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  Speaker 1: that's that's challenging. But those guys did well today and
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  Speaker 1: they protected Gino and I don't know what the sack
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  Speaker 1: thing happened like, but it was a really good job
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  Speaker 1: by those guys getting under yard rusher and protecting the
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  Speaker 1: quarterback enough so that we could play a good football game.
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  Speaker 1: So a lot of good stuff. Penalty still were a factor,
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  Speaker 1: but today again we got better on third downs both sides.
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  Speaker 1: I think we were seven out of thirteen on offense,
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  Speaker 1: which is a great improvement, and it might have been
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  Speaker 1: like five or fifteen or something like that on defense,
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  Speaker 1: which is another we did last week as well, and
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  Speaker 1: that's a big deal for the way we're playing. That's
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  Speaker 1: why things are turning a little bit so fired up
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  Speaker 1: that we're going going places. And we got out of
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  Speaker 1: there pretty healthy. Other than China has a PEX strain
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  Speaker 1: and we don't know anything about the extent of it.
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  Speaker 1: At this point. It seemed like it's code. Seemed like
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  Speaker 1: Daring Brooks was just all over the place. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: he's stowing nine months from that surgery gave her mar
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  Speaker 1: just what he's doing. Yeah, you know, Johnny, he's never
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  Speaker 1: ever even flinched. You know, he really hasn't we We
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  Speaker 1: we held him out of some practices and trying to
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  Speaker 1: not overload him in preparation for the games early on,
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  Speaker 1: but he hasn't even flinched. He's he's such a such
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  Speaker 1: a fantastic athlete, so strong and explosive and all that
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  Speaker 1: you can't see anything in his game that's that's off.
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  Speaker 1: He's he's this is the best he's been and he
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  Speaker 1: showed that and and he's just cleaned his game up
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  Speaker 1: so well and where he's way more consistent than he was.
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  Speaker 1: It wasn't a consistency that he would just he would
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  Speaker 1: go for stuff and you know, maybe not at the
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  Speaker 1: right time. And his timing now is really much much advanced,
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  Speaker 1: and so he's just playing better football. Man. Did we
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  Speaker 1: know whether Spoon was out there today? With the Spoon
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  Speaker 1: was out there again today? Golly had two great plays,
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  Speaker 1: another great hit, three great plays at least in the game,
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  Speaker 1: and unfortunately the penalties take to take those plays away.
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  Speaker 1: But you know, you know, he's out there and really
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  Speaker 1: an exciting young player. Do you knows turnovers, I can
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  Speaker 1: turn you at all. I mean just to come yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: And and it's something that we've been talking about. You know,
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  Speaker 1: he got on the he got on a the sprend.
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  Speaker 1: He's out outside the pocket and it didn't happen on rhythm,
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  Speaker 1: so it went to a late rhythm. And and he
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  Speaker 1: took a shot trying to trying to squeeze one in there.
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  Speaker 1: And that he knows. We we we saw him do
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  Speaker 1: that in camp a few times. And it's something that's
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  Speaker 1: topical and he's sick about it. He just should have
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  Speaker 1: eaten the football or run with the ball right there.
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  Speaker 1: It's what the options are. And you know, he tried
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  Speaker 1: to squeeze one in. We went quick on the snap
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  Speaker 1: and we didn't handle it right. So other than that,
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  Speaker 1: a huge challenge the photo perception. Did you know the
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  Speaker 1: time or did you get a word of time? I
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  Speaker 1: really I had natean and Uh and Carl screaming in
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  Speaker 1: my ear, But you know, to challenge it, you know,
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  Speaker 1: and and Uh right down to the end of it,
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  Speaker 1: you know, because I saw it too, and I couldn't
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  Speaker 1: tell you know, I saw it right down the sidlence.
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  Speaker 1: I saw what they had shown on the board, and
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  Speaker 1: I was trying to evaluate whether or not they give
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  Speaker 1: us a shot to really to look at that thing.
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  Speaker 1: You know, sometimes they just don't they give it great consideration.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, right now, it's an eyelash, you know, between
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  Speaker 1: him making and not making it and so but it
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  Speaker 1: looked like the right call. That's why we challenged it,
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  Speaker 1: you know, we went for it. And maybe what gets
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  Speaker 1: lost in it is the throwing, the catch. Gosh, it
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  Speaker 1: was a great throwing, a great catch under dress, and
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  Speaker 1: the whole thing is a fantastic play. That globo at
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  Speaker 1: six D plus. Jake's got all that stuff in him.
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  Speaker 1: He show he's already shown us. We've already seen he's
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  Speaker 1: got the great knack in the sense and the awareness
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  Speaker 1: and space and spatial awareness, and uh, there's like there's
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  Speaker 1: no catches he can't make. There's nothing he can't do
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  Speaker 1: with catching the ball and using his body and in
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  Speaker 1: that fashion. I mean that's in a short time, you know,
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  Speaker 1: six months of watching the guy, I totally trust him
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  Speaker 1: out as a block or two. He continues to Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: he's been doing that well, and he continues to It
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  Speaker 1: just makes them more valuable force in so many ways.
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  Speaker 1: You thought last thing about Jackson kind of just getting
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  Speaker 1: started like the next step. Yeah, no doubt. He just
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  Speaker 1: feels so much better and contributing so so well. The
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  Speaker 1: call was a great call from Shane and it was
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  Speaker 1: so easy that you know, Jim just threw it at
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  Speaker 1: him down down the goal line on the touchdown. But
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  Speaker 1: there's the other plays that were really good plays for him,
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  Speaker 1: you know. So like I said, he's those guys played
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  Speaker 1: like starters. How close was DK to play in? And
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  Speaker 1: I guess what, you know, we're not having heard you.
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  Speaker 1: He wouldn't. He wouldn't. If he could have played, he'd
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  Speaker 1: have played. Don't for a second, don't for a second
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  Speaker 1: think that he's looking for a way out of this thing.
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  Speaker 1: That's not him at all. He's sick that he couldn't play.
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  Speaker 1: He tried and tried to stay with it. He's played
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  Speaker 1: the last couple of weeks under tremendous dress and and
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  Speaker 1: uh and played well in those circumstances. He just this
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  Speaker 1: just added up too much and he couldn't get it done.
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  Speaker 1: So if he can get back, he'll be back. He
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  Speaker 1: talked so much about boy Mave's improvement. He missed a
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  Speaker 1: few plays in the first half, but it seemed like
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  Speaker 1: he was frequently back there disrupting Joshua Dobbs. How much
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  Speaker 1: did he key this defensive performance. No, he continues to
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  Speaker 1: he's he's a he's continuing to be a factor. There's
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  Speaker 1: no doubt he did jump when he shouldn't have. You know,
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  Speaker 1: he had the guy and the guy even wasn't even
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  Speaker 1: throwing it. So he's still got stuff to learn, okay,
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  Speaker 1: and he had a clean sack opportunity that he kind
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  Speaker 1: of you know when airborne on it. He's got more
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  Speaker 1: to learn, but he is a big factor. Yeah, he's
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  Speaker 1: doing a really good job. I think Daryl had a
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  Speaker 1: couple of rushes too, did a nice job. And uh,
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  Speaker 1: the guys are there, they're contributing. You can tell where
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  Speaker 1: you can tell we've got we've got something going here.
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  Speaker 1: And really excited about did you Yeah, I forgot all
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  Speaker 1: about that one. No, kid, that was a great play.
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  Speaker 1: That was a great play. There's a big play that
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  Speaker 1: happened in another game today where a guy was flipping
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  Speaker 1: and something like that. She knows it was better, he
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  Speaker 1: knows better. He completed that, he completed the jump. Did
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  Speaker 1: you take a challenge in that way? To see that
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  Speaker 1: he was in or no, no, no, we thought we
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  Speaker 1: were going to knock it in. But I was just
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  Speaker 1: glad he got up. Tell the truth, Walker, Well, I
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  Speaker 1: was probably designed that way they were thinking about it.
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  Speaker 1: He's just lucky. He was just lucky. It was a
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  Speaker 1: great effort and that just shows you who he is
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  Speaker 1: and how willing he is to do whatever it takes.
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  Speaker 1: What did you think of the car on Mafe and
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  Speaker 1: that whole sequence where it took away the interception and
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  Speaker 1: all that. I don't know. I didn't see it. I
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  Speaker 1: don't have any evaluation of what happened on the play.
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  Speaker 1: He didn't think it's a three straight up and fifty
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  Speaker 1: total yards? Is that? How much of that is predicated
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  Speaker 1: on your run defense? Kind of playing off the back.
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  Speaker 1: We played the run really well, except for we let
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  Speaker 1: the quarterback get out on the twenty five yard first
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  Speaker 1: and twenty five play, which is you know, that's our
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  Speaker 1: touchdown that we give up on the day, and we
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  Speaker 1: had scheme wise, we should have played to play really
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  Speaker 1: well and we didn't. We're really playing running game well,
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  Speaker 1: and it's been every time we've been out from pre
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  Speaker 1: season on throughout. That's that's the commitment from the coaches
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  Speaker 1: and the players. That's getting that done. That's that's consistency,
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  Speaker 1: and that's where it all starts. Remember way back when
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  Speaker 1: it starts there. Okay, this is where we build from
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  Speaker 1: and it's it's working. So unfortunately they get a bunch
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  Speaker 1: of yards today from the quarterback. With the quarterback element
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  Speaker 1: is really the hardest factor we had. We had a scheme,
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  Speaker 1: we just didn't We didn't execuse as well as we
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  Speaker 1: needed to to keep it down. But we're playing really
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  Speaker 1: well there. I think Lucas possible to get back this week.
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  Speaker 1: I can't from what I'm here, and you know, I
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  Speaker 1: can't say, yeah, he's coming back this week. I don't
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  Speaker 1: know that he's got He's got to surprise us a
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  Speaker 1: little bit. It's just taking time for, you know, for
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  Speaker 1: this process to get him get him right, and we
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  Speaker 1: don't want to rush it now that we've gone this long,
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  Speaker 1: so I can't. I don't know. I don't know until
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  Speaker 1: we get through the week. He's doing great. Yeah he
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  Speaker 1: is right on the version coming back. Yeah what about Uh,
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  Speaker 1: this should be his week. He should be ready. If
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  Speaker 1: we got a spot for him to play, he's ready
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  Speaker 1: to go. It was all but this week and and
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  Speaker 1: but next week. He'll be ready if he makes it
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  Speaker 1: through the week and everything goes well. So I'm looking
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  Speaker 1: to see where he can fit in and contribute to us,
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  Speaker 1: and depends on who's available. You know. Next week you
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  Speaker 1: get to say that how Hulu played a center and
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  Speaker 1: just kind of handle it. I think he did okay.
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  Speaker 1: You know, I felt solid about it. You know, we
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  Speaker 1: did mishandled a snap in there, but other than that,
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  Speaker 1: it felt like he was doing all right. He's really
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  Speaker 1: a bright kid, and it's just not too big for him.
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  Speaker 1: You know, he's playing a lot of big games in
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  Speaker 1: his college career and all that. It's not too big
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  Speaker 1: for him to do. This really handles things well. So
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  Speaker 1: that's a fine job by him. Evan should have a
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  Speaker 1: chance to come back next week. We'll see what happens
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  Speaker 1: for challenges see two for two un challenges. Yeah, it
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  Speaker 1: was a good day for challenging man. You've got a
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  Speaker 1: lot of help though. We're good. There we go